"filter-branch" learned a pseudo filter "--setup" that can be used
to define a common function/variable that can be used by other
filters.
* ah/filter-branch-setup:
filter-branch: add [--] to usage
filter-branch: add `--setup` step
The "add" section for 'git-submodule' is redundant in its
description and the short synopsis line. Fix it.
Remove the redundant mentioning of the 'repository' argument
being mandatory.
The text is hard to read because of back-references, so remove
those.
Replace the word "humanish" by "canonical" as that conveys better
what we do to guess the path.
While at it, quote all occurrences of '.gitmodules' as that is an
important file in the submodule context, also link to it on its
first mention.
Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Read each loose object subdirectory at most once when looking for unique
abbreviated hashes. This speeds up commands like "git log --pretty=%h"
considerably, which previously caused one readdir(3) call for each
candidate, even for subdirectories that were visited before.
The new cache is kept until the program ends and never invalidated. The
same is already true for pack indexes. The inherent racy nature of
finding unique short hashes makes it still fit for this purpose -- a
conflicting new object may be added at any time. Tasks with higher
consistency requirements should not use it, though.
The cached object names are stored in an oid_array, which is quite
compact. The bitmap for remembering which subdir was already read is
stored as a char array, with one char per directory -- that's not quite
as compact, but really simple and incurs only an overhead equivalent to
11 hashes after all.
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing message, "Initial commit", makes sense for the commit template
notifying users that it's their initial commit, but is confusing when
merely checking the status of a fresh repository (or orphan branch)
without having any commits yet.
Change the output of "status" to say "No commits yet" when "git
status" is run on a fresh repo (or orphan branch), while retaining the
current "Initial commit" message displayed in the template that's
displayed in the editor when the initial commit is being authored.
Correspondingly change the output of "short status" to "No commits yet
on " when "git status -sb" is run on a fresh repo (or orphan branch).
A few alternatives considered were,
* Waiting for initial commit
* Your current branch does not have any commits
* Current branch waiting for initial commit
The most succint one among the alternatives was chosen.
[with help on tests from Ævar]
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
read_object() and sha1_object_info_extended() both implement mechanisms
such as object replacement, retrying the packed store after failing to
find the object in the packed store then the loose store, and being able
to mark a packed object as bad and then retrying the whole process.
Consolidating these mechanisms would be a great help to maintainability.
Therefore, consolidate them by extending sha1_object_info_extended() to
support the functionality needed, and then modifying read_object() to
use sha1_object_info_extended().
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a subsequent patch, packed_object_info() will be modified to use the
delta base cache, so move the relevant code to before
packed_object_info().
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The LOOKUP_REPLACE_OBJECT flag controls whether the
lookup_replace_object() function is invoked by
sha1_object_info_extended(), read_sha1_file_extended(), and
lookup_replace_object_extended(), but it is not immediately clear which
functions accept that flag.
Therefore restrict this flag to only sha1_object_info_extended(),
renaming it appropriately to OBJECT_INFO_LOOKUP_REPLACE and adding some
documentation. Update read_sha1_file_extended() to have a boolean
parameter instead, and delete lookup_replace_object_extended().
parse_sha1_header() also passes this flag to
parse_sha1_header_extended() since commit 46f0344 ("sha1_file: support
reading from a loose object of unknown type", 2015-05-03), but that has
had no effect since that commit. Therefore this patch also removes this
flag from that invocation.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The LOOKUP_UNKNOWN_OBJECT flag was introduced in commit 46f0344
("sha1_file: support reading from a loose object of unknown type",
2015-05-03) in order to support a feature in cat-file subsequently
introduced in commit 39e4ae3 ("cat-file: teach cat-file a
'--allow-unknown-type' option", 2015-05-03). Despite its name and
location in cache.h, this flag is used neither in
read_sha1_file_extended() nor in any of the lookup functions, but used
only in sha1_object_info_extended().
Therefore rename this flag to OBJECT_INFO_ALLOW_UNKNOWN_TYPE, taking the
name of the cat-file flag that invokes this feature, and move it closer
to the declaration of sha1_object_info_extended(). Also add
documentation for this flag.
OBJECT_INFO_ALLOW_UNKNOWN_TYPE is defined to 2, not 1, to avoid
conflicting with LOOKUP_REPLACE_OBJECT. Avoidance of this conflict is
necessary because sha1_object_info_extended() supports both flags.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the recursion limit for the default die routine from a *very*
low 1 to 1024. This ensures that infinite recursions are broken, but
doesn't lose the meaningful error messages under threaded execution
where threads concurrently start to die.
The intent of the existing code, as explained in commit
cd163d4b4e ("usage.c: detect recursion in die routines and bail out
immediately", 2012-11-14), is to break infinite recursion in cases
where the die routine itself calls die(), and would thus infinitely
recurse.
However, doing that very aggressively by immediately printing out
"recursion detected in die handler" if we've already called die() once
means that threaded invocations of git can end up only printing out
the "recursion detected" error, while hiding the meaningful error.
An example of this is running a threaded grep which dies on execution
against pretty much any repo, git.git will do:
git grep -P --threads=8 '(*LIMIT_MATCH=1)-?-?-?---$'
With the current version of git this will print some combination of
multiple PCRE failures that caused the abort and multiple "recursion
detected", some invocations will print out multiple "recursion
detected" errors with no PCRE error at all!
Before this change, running the above grep command 1000 times against
git.git[1] and taking the top 20 results will on my system yield the
following distribution of actual errors ("E") and recursion
errors ("R"):
322 E R
306 E
116 E R R
65 R R
54 R E
49 E E
44 R
15 E R R R
9 R R R
7 R E R
5 R R E
3 E R R R R
2 E E R
1 R R R R
1 R R R E
1 R E R R
The exact results are obviously random and system-dependent, but this
shows the race condition in this code. Some small part of the time
we're about to print out the actual error ("E") but another thread's
recursion error beats us to it, and sometimes we print out nothing but
the recursion error.
With this change we get, now with "W" to mean the new warning being
emitted indicating that we've called die() many times:
502 E
160 E W E
120 E E
53 E W
35 E W E E
34 W E E
29 W E E E
16 E E W
16 E E E
11 W E E E E
7 E E W E
4 W E
3 W W E E
2 E W E E E
1 W W E
1 W E W E
1 E W W E E E
1 E W W E E
1 E W W E
1 E W E E W
Which still sucks a bit, due to a still present race-condition in this
code we're sometimes going to print out several errors still, or
several warnings, or two duplicate errors without the warning.
But we will never have a case where we completely hide the actual
error as we do now.
Now, git-grep could make use of the pluggable error facility added in
commit c19a490e37 ("usage: allow pluggable die-recursion checks",
2013-04-16). There's other threaded code that calls set_die_routine()
or set_die_is_recursing_routine().
But this is about fixing the general die() behavior with threading
when we don't have such a custom routine yet. Right now the common
case is not an infinite recursion in the handler, but us losing error
messages by default because we're overly paranoid about our recursion
check.
So let's just set the recursion limit to a number higher than the
number of threads we're ever likely to spawn. Now we won't lose
errors, and if we have a recursing die handler we'll still die within
microseconds.
There are race conditions in this code itself, in particular the
"dying" variable is not thread mutexed, so we e.g. won't be dying at
exactly 1024, or for that matter even be able to accurately test
"dying == 2", see the cases where we print out more than one "W"
above.
But that doesn't really matter, for the recursion guard we just need
to die "soon", not at exactly 1024 calls, and for printing the correct
error and only one warning most of the time in the face of threaded
death this is good enough and a net improvement on the current code.
1. for i in {1..1000}; do git grep -P --threads=8 '(*LIMIT_MATCH=1)-?-?-?---$' 2>&1|perl -pe 's/^fatal: r.*/R/; s/^fatal: p.*/E/; s/^warning.*/W/' | tr '\n' ' '; echo; done | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 20
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since c9d961647 (i18n: add--interactive: mark
edit_hunk_manually message for translation, 2016-12-14),
when the user asks to edit a hunk manually, we respect
core.commentChar in generating the edit instructions.
However, when we then strip out comment lines, we use a
simple regex like:
/^$commentChar/
If your chosen comment character is a regex metacharacter,
then that will behave in a confusing manner ("$", for
instance, would only eliminate blank lines, not actual
comment lines).
We can fix that by telling perl not to respect
metacharacters.
Reported-by: Christian Rösch <christian@croesch.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The prompt_yesno function loops indefinitely waiting for a
"y" or "n" response. But it doesn't handle EOF, meaning
that we can end up in an infinite loop of reading EOF from
stdin. One way to simulate that is with:
echo e | GIT_EDITOR='echo corrupt >' git add -p
Let's break out of the loop and propagate the undef to the
caller. Without modifying the callers that effectively turns
it into a "no" response. This is reasonable for both of the
current callers, and it leaves room for any future caller to
check for undef explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When help.autoCorrect is enabled, an invalid git command prints a
warning and a continuation message, which differs depending on
whether or not the value of help.autoCorrect is positive or
negative.
With help.autoCorrect = 15:
WARNING: You called a Git command named 'lgo', which does not exist.
Continuing under the assumption that you meant 'log'
in 1.5 seconds automatically...
With help.autoCorrect < 0:
WARNING: You called a Git command named 'lgo', which does not exist.
Continuing under the assumption that you meant 'log'
The continuation message's phrasing is awkward. This commit cleans it up.
As a bonus, we now use full-sentence strings which make translation easier.
With help.autoCorrect = 15:
WARNING: You called a Git command named 'lgo', which does not exist.
Continuing in 1.5 seconds, assuming that you meant 'log'.
With help.autoCorrect < 0:
WARNING: You called a Git command named 'lgo', which does not exist.
Continuing under the assumption that you meant 'log'.
Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We bumped the default in be4ca2905 (Increase
core.packedGitLimit, 2017-04-20) but never adjusted the
documentation to match.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the indentation from "\t " to "\t". This indenting issue was
introduced when the test was added in commit 1d2f393ac9
("status/commit: show staged submodules regardless of ignore
config", 2014-04-05).
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix an erroneously copy/pasted check for the pcre2_jit_stack variable
to check pcre2_match_context instead. The former was already checked
in the preceding "if" statement.
This is a trivial and obvious error introduced in my commit
94da9193a6 ("grep: add support for PCRE v2", 2017-06-01).
In practice if pcre2_match_context_create() returned NULL we were
likely in a situation where malloc() was returning NULL, and were thus
screwed anyway, but if only the pcre2_match_context_create() call
returned NULL (through some transitory bug) PCRE v2 would just
allocate and supply its own context object when matching, and we'd run
normally at the trivial expense of not getting a slight speedup by
sharing the context object between successive matches.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git $cmd -h" for builtin commands calls the implementation of the
command (i.e. cmd_$cmd() function) without doing any repository
set-up, and the commands that expect RUN_SETUP is done by the Git
potty needs to be prepared to show the help text without barfing.
* jk/consistent-h:
t0012: test "-h" with builtins
git: add hidden --list-builtins option
version: convert to parse-options
diff- and log- family: handle "git cmd -h" early
submodule--helper: show usage for "-h"
remote-{ext,fd}: print usage message on invalid arguments
upload-archive: handle "-h" option early
credential: handle invalid arguments earlier
When an existing repository is used for t/perf testing, we first
create bit-for-bit copy of it, which may grab a transient state of
the repository and freeze it into the repository used for testing,
which then may cause Git operations to fail. Single out "the index
being locked" case and forcibly drop the lock from the copy.
* ab/perf-remove-index-lock:
perf: work around the tested repo having an index.lock
Update "perl-compatible regular expression" support to enable JIT
and also allow linking with the newer PCRE v2 library.
* ab/pcre-v2:
grep: add support for PCRE v2
grep: un-break building with PCRE >= 8.32 without --enable-jit
grep: un-break building with PCRE < 8.20
grep: un-break building with PCRE < 8.32
grep: add support for the PCRE v1 JIT API
log: add -P as a synonym for --perl-regexp
grep: skip pthreads overhead when using one thread
grep: don't redundantly compile throwaway patterns under threading
The convention for a command line is to follow "git cmdname
--options" with revisions followed by an optional "--"
disambiguator and then finally pathspecs. When "--" is not there,
we make sure early ones are all interpretable as revs (and do not
look like paths) and later ones are the other way around. A
pathspec with "magic" (e.g. ":/p/a/t/h" that matches p/a/t/h from
the top-level of the working tree, no matter what subdirectory you
are working from) are conservatively judged as "not a path", which
required disambiguation more often. The command line parser
learned to say "it's a pathspec" a bit more often when the syntax
looks like so.
* jk/pathspec-magic-disambiguation:
verify_filename(): flip order of checks
verify_filename(): treat ":(magic)" as a pathspec
check_filename(): handle ":^" path magic
check_filename(): use skip_prefix
check_filename(): refactor ":/" handling
t4208: add check for ":/" without matching file
Check the console output when using --autostash and the stash does not
apply is what we expect. The test is quite strict but should catch any
changes to the console output from the various rebase flavors.
Thanks-to: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Check the console output when using --autostash and the stash applies
cleanly is what we expect. The test is quite strict but should catch
any changes to the console output from the various rebase flavors.
Thanks-to: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Check that the reflog message written to the branch reflog when the
rebase is completed is correct
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The rebase messages are printed to stderr traditionally. However due
to a bug introduced in 587947750b (rebase: implement --[no-]autostash
and rebase.autostash, 2013-05-12) which was faithfully copied when
reimplementing parts of the interactive rebase in the sequencer the
autostash messages are printed to stdout instead.
It is time to fix that: let's print the autostash messages to stderr
instead of stdout.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce '--show-stash' and its configuration option 'status.showStash'
to allow git-status to show information about currently stashed entries.
Signed-off-by: Liam Beguin <liambeguin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most of the time, a 'stash entry' is called a 'stash'. Lets try to make
this more consistent and use 'stash entry' instead.
Signed-off-by: Liam Beguin <liambeguin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`for_each_bisect_ref()` is called by `for_each_bad_bisect_ref()` with
a term "bad". This used to make it call `for_each_ref_in_submodule()`
with a prefix "refs/bisect/bad". But the latter is the name of the
reference that is being sought, so the empty string was being passed
to the callback as the trimmed refname. Moreover, this questionable
practice was turned into an error by
b9c8e7f2fb prefix_ref_iterator: don't trim too much, 2017-05-22
It makes more sense (and agrees better with the documentation of
`--bisect`) for the callers to receive the full reference names. So
* Add a new function, `for_each_fullref_in_submodule()`, to the refs
API. This plugs a gap in the existing functionality, analogous to
`for_each_fullref_in()` but accepting a `submodule` argument.
* Change `for_each_bad_bisect_ref()` to call the new function rather
than `for_each_ref_in_submodule()`.
* Add a test.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The macOS X fork of Meld[1] requires a "=" in the "--output"
argument, as it uses a wrapper[2] script that munges the
"--output" argument before calling into the common "meld"
script.
The macOS X wrapper script[2] accepts "--output=<filename>"
only, despite the fact that the underlying meld code accepts
both "--output <filename" and "--output=<filename>"[3].
All versions of meld which accept "--output" accept it in
the "--output=<filename>" form, so use "--output=<file>" for
maximum compatibility.
[1] https://github.com/yousseb/meld
[2] https://github.com/yousseb/meld/blob/master/osx/Meld
[3] https://github.com/yousseb/meld/issues/42
Reported-by: Matthew Groth <mgroth49@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Samuel Lijin <sxlijin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace occurrences of `free(ptr); ptr = NULL` which weren't caught by
the coccinelle rule. These fall into two categories:
- free/NULL assignments one after the other which coccinelle all put
on one line, which is functionally equivalent code, but very ugly.
- manually spotted occurrences where the NULL assignment isn't right
after the free() call.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A follow-up to the existing "expression" rule added in an earlier
change. This manually excludes a few occurrences, mostly things that
resulted in many FREE_AND_NULL() on one line, that'll be manually
fixed in a subsequent change.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A follow-up to the existing "type" rule added in an earlier
change. This catches some occurrences that are missed by the previous
rule.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Apply the result of the just-added coccinelle rule. This manually
excludes a few occurrences, mostly things that resulted in many
FREE_AND_NULL() on one line, that'll be manually fixed in a subsequent
change.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A negated character class that does not include '/', e.g. [^a-z]:
- Should match '/' when doing "wildmatch"
- Should not match '/' when doing "pathmatch"
Add two tests to cover these cases.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a FREE_AND_NULL() wrapper marco for the common pattern of freeing
a pointer and assigning NULL to it right afterwards.
The implementation is similar to the (currently unused) XDL_PTRFREE
macro in xdiff/xmacros.h added in commit 3443546f6e ("Use a *real*
built-in diff generator", 2006-03-24). The only difference is that
free() is called unconditionally, see [1].
See [2] for a suggested alternative which does this via a function
instead of a macro. As covered in replies to that message, while it's
a viable approach, it would introduce caveats which this approach
doesn't have, so that potential change is left to a future follow-up
change.
This merely allows us to translate exactly what we're doing now to a
less verbose & idiomatic form using a macro, while guaranteeing that
we don't introduce any functional changes.
1. <alpine.DEB.2.20.1608301948310.129229@virtualbox>
(http://public-inbox.org/git/alpine.DEB.2.20.1608301948310.129229@virtualbox/)
2. <20170610032143.GA7880@starla>
(https://public-inbox.org/git/20170610032143.GA7880@starla/)
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we convert seconds-since-epochs timestamps into a
broken-down "struct tm", we do so by adjusting the timestamp
according to the known offset and then using gmtime() to
break down the result. This means that the resulting struct
"knows" that it's in GMT, even though the time it represents
is adjusted for a different zone. The fields where it stores
this data are not portably accessible, so we have no way to
override them to tell them the real zone info.
For the most part, this works. Our date-formatting routines
don't pay attention to these inaccessible fields, and use
the same tz info we provided for adjustment. The one
exception is when we call strftime(), whose %Z format
reveals this hidden timezone data.
We solved that by always showing the empty string for %Z.
This is allowed by POSIX, but not very helpful to the user.
We can't make this work in the general case, as there's no
portable function for setting an arbitrary timezone (and
anyway, we don't have the zone name for the author zones,
only their offsets).
But for the special case of the "-local" formats, we can
just skip the adjustment and use localtime() instead of
gmtime(). This makes --date=format-local:%Z work correctly,
showing the local timezone instead of an empty string.
The new test checks the result for "UTC", our default
test-lib value for $TZ. Using something like EST5 might be
more interesting, but the actual zone string is
system-dependent (for instance, on my system it expands to
just EST). Hopefully "UTC" is vanilla enough that every
system treats it the same.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We already test that "%z" and "%Z" show the right thing, but
we don't actually check that the time we display is the
correct one. Let's add two new tests:
1. Test that "format:" shows the time in the author's
timezone, just like the other time formats.
2. Test that "format-local:" shows time in the local
timezone. We don't want to use our normal UTC for this,
because its offset is zero (so the result would be
"correct" even if the code forgot to apply the offset
or applied it in the wrong direction).
We'll use the EST5 zone, which is already used
elsewhere in the script (and so is assumed to be
available everywhere).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is no portable way to pass timezone information to strftime. Add
parameters for timezone offset and name to strbuf_addftime and let it
handle the timezone-related format specifiers %z and %Z internally.
Callers can opt out for %Z by passing NULL as timezone name. %z is
always handled internally -- this helps on Windows, where strftime would
expand it to a timezone name (same as %Z), in violation of POSIX.
Modifiers are not handled, e.g. %Ez is still passed to strftime.
Use an empty string as timezone name in show_date (the only current
caller) for now because we only have the timezone offset in non-local
mode. POSIX allows %Z to resolve to an empty string in case of missing
information.
Helped-by: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Acked-by: Ben Peart <peartben@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We added an FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES Makefile knob long ago
in cba22528f (Add compat/fopen.c which returns NULL on
attempt to open directory, 2008-02-08) to handle systems
where reading from a directory returned garbage. This works
by catching the problem at the fopen() stage and returning
NULL.
More recently, we found that there is a class of systems
(including Linux) where fopen() succeeds but fread() fails.
Since the solution is the same (having fopen return NULL),
they use the same Makefile knob as of e2d90fd1c
(config.mak.uname: set FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES for Linux and
FreeBSD, 2017-05-03).
This works fine except for one thing: the autoconf test in
configure.ac to set FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES actually checks
whether fread succeeds. Which means that on Linux systems,
the knob isn't set (and we even override the config.mak.uname
default). t1308 catches the failure.
We can fix this by tweaking the autoconf test to cover both
cases. In theory we might care about the distinction between
the traditional "fread reads directories" case and the new
"fopen opens directories". But since our solution catches
the problem at the fopen stage either way, we don't actually
need to know the difference. The "fopen" case is a superset.
This does mean the FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES name is slightly
misleading. Probably FOPEN_OPENS_DIRECTORIES would be more
accurate. But it would be disruptive to simply change the
name (people's existing build configs would fail), and it's
not worth the complexity of handling both. Let's just add a
comment in the knob description.
Reported-by: Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
